ArticleBMJ open quality2022
An initiative to reduce medication errors in neonatal care unit of a tertiary care hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal: a quality improvement report.
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Abstract
backgroundMedication errors are an emerging problem in various hospital settings, especially in neonates. A study conducted in the neonatal care unit of a tertiary institute in Kolkata as baseline over 3 months, revealed total error to be around 71.1/100 prescriptions (median medication error percentage: 63%). PURPOSE: To assess the occurrences of medication errors and determine efficacy of Point-of-Care Quality improvement (POCQI) model in reducing the same from baseline 63% to less than 10%, in the above setting within next 9 months. MATERIALS AND
methodsThis quality improvement initiative of quasi-experimental design comprised randomly selected prescriptions and monitoring sheets of neonates admitted in the neonatal care unit, obeying inclusion and exclusion criteria. Medication errors were assessed and categorised using a predesigned and pretested checklist. Interventions were planned after forming a quality improvement team in four plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycles spanning over 6 weeks each (including training of doctors and nurses, signature and countersignatures of respective healthcare personnel, computer-generated prescriptions and newly designed software-generated prescriptions) as per POCQI model of the WHO and results in post-intervention phase (3 months) were compared.
resultsA total of 552 prescriptions and monitoring sheets of 124 neonates were studied. Median medication error percentages in first, second, third and fourth PDSA cycle were, respectively, 48%, 42%, 30% and 14%. Total error reduced to 10.4/100 prescriptions (p<0.005), with significant reduction in erred dosage, timing, interval, preparation and rate of infusion of drugs in prescriptions of the post-intervention phase.
conclusionImplementation of change ideas via PDSA cycles, as per the POCQI model with technological aid, significantly decreased the percentage of medication errors in neonates, which was also sustained in the post-intervention phase and facilitated error-free prescriptions.
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